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Let’s Abolish Capitalism!
Because high infant mortality, massively reduced life expectancy, incurable diseases, and abject global poverty are all preferable to what we have today
As I was walking up to the gym in Lausanne today I passed another demonstration in the town square. Children of all ages, ranging from late teens to late sixties, were out in force waving placards and chanting slogans, all merrily virtue-signaling to each other how Politically Correct they were.
Feminism is anti-capitalism!
Anti-racism is anti-capitalism!
Justice for all is anti-capitalism!
Pretty much every slogan, which was inevitably greeted with enthusiastic cheers by the crowd, invoked anti-capitalism. Perhaps Thomas Piketty was the sponsor of this particular demonstration and was selling his books (at a suitable discount, one must assume…) somewhere off in the distance.
No one in the crowd of happy virtue-signalers seemed in the slightest bit conscious of the fact that all their clothes and shoes were entirely the product of capitalism. They seemed unaware of the fact that without capitalism they wouldn’t be able to take pictures of themselves gleefully denouncing the system that made all their phones and created all…
